Improvement in paper collars



H. AVERILL & r. B. GINN.

y PAPER-COLLARS. No. 186,517. Patented Jaln.z3,1`a`w. r

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICIE.

HARTLEY AVERILL AND FREDSB. GIN N,.OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IVN PAPER COLLARS.

Specification forminggpart of Letters Patent No. lS6,5l7, dated January 23, 1877; application iled i December 28, 1876. l

To all lwhom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HARTLEY AVERILL and FRED B1GINN, both ot' Boston` in the county of Suffolk, and in the State of Massai chnsetts, have invented au Improved Paper Collar, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawing; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact de scription thereof.

Figure l is a perspective view of our improved paper collar when complete and ready for use. Fig. 2 is a detail view of the upper part or cheek-piece of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the band of the same.

The nature of' said invention consists in the construction of a curved paper collar-band; also, in the combination of a curved collar-band with a curved cheek-piece, the two parts afore said being connected at their shorter edges, so as to stiften or brace the collar.

In the accompanyin g drawing, A designates a collar-band constructed in accordance with our invention, both the edges c and c1 of said,

band being curved longitudinally and similarly, so as to give `a curvature to the entire` band. B designates the cheek-piece or collar proper of a standing collar, .the edges b and b' of which cheek-piece are also curved, so as to give a longitudinal curvature to the entire cheek-piece. The lower edge b of said cheekpiece and the upper edge a of said collarband are secured by sewing or gluing. As said edges are the shorter ones of their respective parts, the said collar-band and cheekpiece are braced by such attachment,`so as to naturally take and hold theshape shown in Fig. l, when the button-holed ends a2 a2 are brought together. The trouble and delay of tting a collar about the wearers necklare` thus greatly lessened.

A turn'down collar may be substituted for the cheek-piece above described, the form of band A being still retained.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The improved standing collar, composed oftWo piecesto Wit, the collar-band A, having 

